This report presents an assessment of the status of baseline data, information and knowledge systems, as well as the status of monitoring and evaluation activities in the water sector. The report presents what data are currently collected, who collects data, and how data, information and knowledge are stored, used and made available to other institutions and the public. Gaps in data, information and knowledge managements have been identified and a strategy for how to strengthen the information and knowledge management in the water sector is presented. Findings show several key issues that negatively affect data and information management in the water sector, e.g. equipment used for data collection (e.g. loggers) are prone to failure; limited staff capacity to gather, analyse and manage data; not all required data being collected; poor reporting on abstraction by permit holders to DWAF; no clear standard on how to store data; and no standards for data exchange between databases.